تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.30.11

13.30.11

"Darōhī of the Sultan! By the head of the Sultan, you shall not enter until you pay me!" Then he cannot leave his place until he pays him or begs him for a delay! It happened one day that the Sultan went out to visit his father's tomb and stopped at a palace there. I said to them: "This is your moment." When I wanted to enter, they stood in my way at the palace gate and said to me: "Darōhī of the Sultan! You shall not enter until you pay us!" The gate clerks wrote about this to the Sultan, and the chamberlain of petitions, Shams al-Dīn, who was one of the leading jurists, came out and asked them: "For what reason have you made a claim of darōhī against him?" They said: "He owes us a debt." He went back to the Sultan and informed him, and he said to him: "Ask them how much the debt amounts to." He asked them and they told him: fifty-five thousand